Higher education was once a comfortable cocoon where students were incubated until they emerged as fully-formed beings ready to participate in the real world.  There were external social and political influences, to be sure, but they did not generally impact the education gestation process.  Today, the metamorphosis from student to citizen has been supplanted by a chaotic barrage of external forces that often displace teaching and learning at the heart of the higher education ecosystem with a muddled mix of ideology and indoctrination. In this episode I’ll trace the history of this pejoration as I have witnessed it for fifty years.

EdUp Insights with Bill Pepicello is part of the EdUp Experience Podcast Network.